EU sovereignConsent Management (CMP)Headquarters: NL

Complianz: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Complianz is a WordPress plugin for cookie consent and privacy compliance, also available as a Shopify app. It shows a configurable cookie banner, scans the site for cookies and scripts, blocks third-party scripts and iframes until consent is given, and generates a cookie policy. There is a free and a premium edition; features such as multisite, TCF and Google Consent Mode belong to premium. According to its makers, Complianz runs entirely on your own WordPress server, and it describes itself as open source.

Complianz B.V. is based in Groningen, the Netherlands, and is part of the iubenda group, which belongs to the European team.blue group. The plugin sends scan data, such as cookie names and the domains that set them, to cookiedatabase.org; the advanced website scan is run by Complianz itself and, per its page, keeps the scanned public data for one hour. Because consent is processed on your own server, you can keep the data within Europe.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 1, 2026

Headquarters	NL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	BEVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Consent Management (CMP)
Type	Product
Website	complianz.io ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Complianz

The European alternatives to Complianz come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

24 European Consent Management (CMP) vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Complianz

Complianz is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in BE, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Complianz scores best on data residency.

Complianz is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Complianz together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Complianz?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Complianz include Axeptio, Borlabs Cookie and CCM19. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Complianz?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Complianz include CookieConsent (Orestbida). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Complianz GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Complianz is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Complianz an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 1, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Digital sovereignty in Consent Management (CMP)

Consent Management (CMP): Cookie banners and consent management platforms for GDPR compliance. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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